About KokālikaKokālikasutta

At Sāvatthī.Sāvatthinidānaṁ.

Now at that time the Buddha had gone into retreat for the day’s meditation.Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā divāvihāragato hoti paṭisallīno. Then the independent divinities Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa went to the Buddha and stationed themselves one by each door-post.Atha kho subrahmā ca paccekabrahmā suddhāvāso ca paccekabrahmā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā paccekaṁ dvārabāhaṁ nissāya aṭṭhaṁsu.

Then Subrahmā spoke this verse about the mendicant Kokālika in the Buddha’s presence:Atha kho subrahmā paccekabrahmā kokālikaṁ bhikkhuṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:

“What wise person here would judge“Appameyyaṁ paminanto, the immeasurable by measuring them?Kodha vidvā vikappaye; I think anyone who’d do such a thingAppameyyaṁ pamāyinaṁ, is an ordinary person, shrouded.”Nivutaṁ taṁ maññe puthujjanan”ti.